Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thousand Days Arthur Schlesinger called the Minnesota delegation the key to Kennedy's victory in the 1960 National Democratic convention. The D.F.L.'s national power was graphically shown as the governor, Orville Freeman, now Secretary of Agriculture, nominated Kennedy, Senator Eugene McCarthy nominated Stevenson, and Humphrey remained a candidate himself...
...once-mighty Democrats were in trouble at home. For the first time since 1954 they did not control the governorship (a tremendously powerful position in Minnesota where the legislature is elected without party designation). Furthermore, they had little chance of defeating powerful incumbent Elmer L. Anderson...
...election; Anderson lost it with a campaign that even he privately admitted was remarkably inept. Anderson had won in 1960 largely because of the votes he picked up in the traditionally Democratic iron ranges in the state's far north. In 1962 Anderson foolishly attacked a northern Minnesota DFL congressman -- John Blatnik -- so sacrosanct that he is running this year without opposition...
...July, 1965, the D.F.L. executive committee met at Sugar Hills, a northern Minnesota resort, and decided that Rolvaag could not win and should not run in 1966. No written resolutions came out of the conference but when word of what had happened there leaked to the Minneapolis papers in September, Rolvaag was as good as dumped...
While the Democrats were clawing at each other's throats, Minnesota Republicans were proving very agreeable opponents. The Republicans' campaign mistakes have balanced out the D.F.L. internal split so thoroughly the November 8 gubanatorial election could end in another dead heat...